Eugenia Skeeter Phelan est de retour dans sa petite ville de Jackson, Mississippi, au début des années 60, après des études à l'université. Ses amies d'enfance se sont mariées, mais elle ne souhaite rien tant que de devenir écrivain. Elle prend la responsabilité de la chronique ménagère du journal local et, pour se familiariser avec son sujet, dont elle ignore tout, obtient de son amie Elizabeth la permission d'interroger sa domestique noire, Aibileen. Parallèlement, une autre amie de Skeeter, Hilly, parvient à convaincre ses concitoyens de voter une motion contraignant les employées de maison à utiliser des toilettes séparées...
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00:30That have had these women working in them
00:31And you can just feel it
00:33These homes are just perfect
00:36And it's a great joy to me
00:38Particularly when you design something
00:39That's from an extremely popular book
00:41There's a responsibility to bring the visuals
00:43Of the book to life
00:44Does this dress look like it made?
00:46I reckon when you finish it once
00:48Thank you
00:49She looks like a winning horse at the Kentucky Derby
00:51Sharon Davis is doing the costumes
00:54She's just really brought it to life
00:56The palette on film
00:58With what she's done is just phenomenal
01:00This is how people
01:02Dressed and carried on in Mississippi
01:04Back then
01:05It's just a little too young
01:06It's a little too everything
01:08The fun of this film is that
01:10It's more colorful
01:11Clothes are a little more feminine
01:13Skeeter wants to be a professional writer
01:16She has sort of a silhouette
01:19Of a northerner
01:21Yet it still looks like a slip girl
01:23Sorry I'm late
01:24Healy is so fashion forward
01:26But then she takes the clothes
01:29And makes them still bigger
01:30And brighter
01:31Because at the bridge game
01:33Or the junior league
01:35She has got to be the one who's seen
01:36Hey girl
01:37Hey Healy
01:38We are just these little
01:41Beautiful southern bells
01:42Did you see what me said
01:44You got on
01:45Lord have mercy
01:46Women better hold on
01:47Their husbands tonight
01:48You actually are stepping into this world
01:52And you're a part of this world
01:53The attention to femininity
01:55And the hair
01:57And the makeup
01:58And the dress
01:59And the look of being
02:01That perfect
02:02Genteel
02:04Southern woman
02:05There's such a richness to the story
02:09The flavor and the look
02:11Is here
02:12Brighter than the sun